Global Stage: Live from Davos

Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Ian Bremmer is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the general public make sense of the world around them. He is president and founder of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk research and consulting firm, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. Ian is an independent voice on critical issues around the globe, offering clearheaded insights through speeches, written commentary, and even satirical puppets (really!). Ian is the host of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, a weekly show airing on US public television.

Arancha González Laya, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po.

Arancha González is the third Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and the first woman to lead the world's third school for Politics and International Studies. Prior to joining PSIA, Ms González served as Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2020-2021). She previously was Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (2013-2020). Between 2005 and 2013 she served as Chief of Staff to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy. Before that she held senior positions at the European Commission in the areas of international trade and development.

Strive Masiyiwa, Founder & Executive Chairman, Cassava Technologies

Strive Masiyiwa is a telecommunications and technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. In his nearly four decades as an entrepreneur, he has started and invested in businesses throughout the world including Africa, the European Union, India, Latin America, the Middle East, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA.

Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President, Microsoft

As Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith is responsible for spearheading the company’s work and representing it publicly on a wide variety of critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental sustainability, human rights, digital safety, immigration, philanthropy, and products and business for non-profit customers. He leads a team of roughly 2,000 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals located in 54 countries and operating in more than 120 nations.

Rishi Sunak, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Rishi Sunak served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022. While Prime Minister, he pledged to overhaul secondary school education by introducing maths lessons to 18 and as Chancellor introduced the Multiply programme to improve adult numeracy skills. Rishi Sunak is also the MP for Richmond and Northallerton.

Richard Quest (moderator), Anchor for CNN International and Editor-at-Large for CNN Business

Richard Quest is CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and anchor of Quest Means Business, the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money. As one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team, Quest also serves as CNN Business editor-at-large in the network’s New York bureau. Additionally, Quest is the host of CNN's Quest’s World of Wonder, an immersive travel series that finds him exploring a new destination each month and meeting fascinating people who reveal the heart of that city.